Broom



Get. 18, 1927. 1,646,041

J. M B. REID BROOM Filed Feb. 4. 1925 Patented Oct. 18, 1927.

UNITED STATES JAMES MGBAIN REID, 0F PARRY SOUND,

PATENT OFFICE.

onrrARro,*oA1vADA, .ASSIGNOR 'ro JAMES GLIVER. REID AND JAMES McBAINREID, TRADING UNDER FIRM NAME a'mxan a; o. REID, 0E :PARRY soUnD,CANADA.

.IBROOM.

Application filed February 4, 1925. Serial.No; ,591;

- This, invention relates tobrooms .such as used 111 dwellings, stores,factories and the llke for sweeping floors. In these brooms,

thecorn is usually permanently secured to" the end ofthehandle, so thatwhenthe corn becomes worn, thebroom as a whole is discarded It has alsobeen known to bind the corn together as a separate unit, which corn isremovably inserted in a special holder, so that only the corn isdiscarded when the latter is worn. So far, however, this latterarrangement has not beeen successful in. a commercial way, and theobject of my invention is to devise a broom in which thecorn isreplaceable which will overcome the objections to the arrangementsheretofore knowin-which cangbe manufac tured and sold at but very littleover the cost of the ordinary broom and in which the fillers will costconsiderably less than a new ordinary broom, in which the broom unit maybe quickly and easily removed and replaced, and in which, when inuse,the filler, will be firmly held.

A further object is to devise an improved construction of filler inwhich the individual strands of corn or fibre will be securely held inplace so that their falling out is prevented. I attain my objects bymeans of the construction hereinafter described and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a front view ofmy improvedbroom;

Fig. 2 a vertical section through the same; Fig. 8 a detail showing themethod of constructing the filler; and

Fig. 4 a plan view of the completed filler. Fig. 5 is a side view of thebroom. In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate correspondingparts in the of a suitable adhesive material such as glue,

cement or the like. Suitable pressure may be applied to ensure firmadhesion between the corn 1 and strip 2. It will be evident, of course,that the strip 2 may be formed of any number of plies. Preferably, aftercementing,the strip androrninay be secured byone or more lines ofstitching 3. The StI'lp' 2 maybe only of sufficient length to form asingle filler, or may be long enough to form a number of fillers. If thelatter,. enough will be cut ofilto form a single filller and is woundinto a coil asshown particularly in Fig. 4Q The coil may besuitablycompressed and will be held together by stitching passing through thevarious folds. i

'As will be seen particularly from Fig. 2', the filler will be quitethick at itsupper end compared to the thickness .of the remainder, ofit, and this extra thickness is of par ticular advantagewhen the filler.is usedin conjunction with my improved holder which I will now describe.i

kThe holder comprises twohalf sections 4:, I

which willfusually be formed as metal stamp-v ings, between which theupper end of the filler is received. These sections 4 are hingedlyconnected at their lower ends. Each section, it will be notedparticularly from Fig. 2, is provided with an extension 5 between whichthe handle is received. To

secure together .the upper ends of the secenter, when the sleeve hasbeen rotated to a grooves 7 are preferably located at the joint betweenthe extensions, being formed partly in each extension.

Forming the grooves 7 in the outside of the extensions 5 will at thesame time form ribs on their inner surfaces, and these ribs I utilize toretain the handle 10 in position, the handle being provided'with anannular groove into which the ribs extend.

In order to remove a filler, the sleevev 6 is rotated until theprojections 8 enter the grooves 9, when the sleeve may be moved upwardlyon the handle to disengage it from the extensions 5. The sections 4 maythen be opened out. As the filler is usually considerably wider at thebottom than at the top, it is troublesome to pull it upwardly be- On thelower end of the handle is provid ed a long thin projection 11 whichextends into a recess 12 formed centrally oi the filler. This projectionextends, as'will be seen from Fig. 2, down below'the levelof the loweredges of the sections 4 and gives, a measure of stiffness to the filler,although the projection is suttici ently flexible not to interfere withthe proper use of the broom.

From the above description it will be seen that I have devised aconstruction which will satisfactorily attain the objects of myinvention as set out in the preamble of this specification.

' WVhat I claim is:

1. Ina broom, the combination of a holder formed of a pair of sectionshingedly connected at their lower ends; an extension on the upper end ofeach section; a handle adapted to be clamped between said extensions,said handle having an annular groove formed therein, and said extensionsbeing provided with ribs adapted to be received in said annular groove;means for releasably holding said extensions in handle clampingposition; and a filler adapted to have its upper portion receivedbetween said sections.

2. In a broom, the combination of a holder formed of a pair of sectionshingedly connected at their lower ends; an extension on the upper end ofeach section; a handle adapted to be clamped between said extensions,said handle having an annular groove formed therein, and saidextensionsbeing provided with "ribs adapted to be received in saidannular groove; means for releasably holding said extensions in handleclamping position; and a filler adapted to have its upper portionreceived between said sections, said filler having its greatestthickness adjacent the head thereof and the lower edges of said sectionsbeing cut away between the hinge points to allow the removal of saidthicker portions when the sections are opened out.

Signed at Toronto, Canada, this 15th day of January, 1925. 4

JAMES MoBAIN REID.

